9to5poet
The Soulless Machine
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colovillis
What can I say? I’m a sucker for the high gloss action movie’s with super powers. Jumper, newly on DVD, is one of those guilty pleasures. I’m even going to role-up a character like Griffin (played by Jamie Bell), meaning that my character will be able to jump, for an upcoming game that colovillis will be running.
Hayden Christensen’s acting wasn’t so hot. His character, David Rice, was not very interesting either. I mean, really, you have this amazing ability to be anywhere you want by thinking it and you go back for the high school crush. I mean really. The movie even showed how he could have any smoking hot woman he wanted from any country. I just have to say that this was a sad story line, just sad.
However, don’t let that stop you from seeing this movie. The special effects were really good (it’s too bad you can’t see it on a big screen). The fight scenes were amazing. I really like the idea of being able to jump and entire bus at someone-that was way cool.
The revenge seeking Griffin, who had been on his own since early childhood, was a lot more engaging. He was on a mission to kill the paladins, led by Roland (played by Samuel L. Jackson), who’s sole job was to hunt down Jumpers and kill them because they are an affront to God. Only God can be omnipresent, which is a logic error. Jumpers could only be in one place at one time, and the definition of omnipresent is all places at once.
I’m going to look for this movie on the cheap and add it to my movie collection. If you’re looking for fun, this is it.
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I have to agree is was random high-gloss action, but it had very little substance.
In the beginning of the film they show Hayden’s character making breakfast for himself and basically abusing his powers by not even bothering to walk from the couch to the refrigerator 20ft away. TV remote *just* out of reach..(teleport less than a foot the right) not anymore! Thats just laziness.
To make matters worse, he has CNN on the TV in the background (on his probably insanely expensive TV which he robbed a bank for the money, if he bothered to buy it legally) and there is a flooding emergency somewhere else in the US and the reporter covering the emergency notes how a group of people will likely drown and it would take a miracle to save them… What does this kid with ‘the power of a god’ do? Nothing. Less than nothing. He grabs an unbrella and teleports to London to pick up easily impressed vapid women.
In the dictionary under “Self-important douchebag” theres a picture of this movie’s ‘protagonist’ played by Hayden Christiansen with all the skill in which he used to ruin Star Wars.
Now the example I above should have served to be foreshadowing for how our ‘protagonist’ grows as a person and learns not to use his powers selfishly… there should have been a moral to the story, a lesson. There isn’t. Or if there is it’s “If you have a problem, either run from it or hit it with a bus.”
So, we follow Hayden’s character as he continually acts in his own self-interests and (in running from Samuel L. Jackson, who sees this douchbag for what he is) goes back to his highschool crush and impresses her with his (stolen) money and proceeds visit all the countries she wanted to visit in her youth all in an attempt to get into her pants. (Remember kids: having zero ethics and lots of money will get you whatever you want.)
At the end of the movie we still have Hayden’s character trying to tell Samuel’s character that he’s (somehow) different from all the other Jumpers, which he somehow prooves by not killing Sam’s character… I’m sure thats quite comforting for those people who drowned live on TV at the beginning of the film.
By the end, I was left with the distinct impression that Hayden’s character hadn’t learned anything (other than how to destroy a building with his teleportation abilities) and hadn’t grown as a character at all. The only change was he now didn’t have to teleport in order to get a piece of ass anymore. Would he still rob a bank? Yes. Would he stop to save people who were about die anymore than he would have at the begining of the film? I don’t think so. He was still the same self-important, cocky asshole he was at the start.